Line #75 Webcomic/Huckleberry


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3	''[[https://huckleberry.thecomicseries.com/ Huckleberry]]'' is a {{superhero}} {{webcomic}} created by Tropers/MatterCosmic. It embraces the silly aspects of the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver]] Ages of superhero comics, featuring wacky science, a lighthearted tone, a FantasyKitchenSink setting, and many puns.
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5	The [[ProtagonistTitle eponymous]] protagonist, Huckleberry, is a young PlantPerson and a [[GreenThumb fruit-themed]] superhero. His career begins in Chunkystew, a small, eccentric desert town of humans and monsters. The comic follows his progression as a costumed adventurer.
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7	Not to be confused with the book ''Literature/AdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn'' or the Hanna-Barbara character, [[WesternAnimation/TheHuckleberryHoundShow Huckleberry Hound]].
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10	!!''Huckleberry'' provides examples of:
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12	* AcidAttack: One of Huckleberry's primary powers. His hands can produce a powerful citric acid.
13	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: One location is called '''M'''ock '''M'''ountain. There is also the '''D'''esert of '''D'''isorientation. There is also '''S'''ae of '''S'''and.
14	* AllDesertsHaveCacti: Given its desert setting, cacti frequently show up in the background of outdoors panels.
15	* AlliterativeTitle: All the main issue titles so far are alliterative.
16	** Issue 1: "'''H'''ello, '''H'''uckleberry!"
17	** Issue 2: "At '''w'''ar '''w'''ith a '''w'''orm"
18	** Issue 3: "'''C'''olorful '''C'''haos"
19	** Issue 4: "'''Wor'''ld of '''wor'''ms"
20	** Issue 5: "'''F'''owl & '''F'''lashbacks"
21	* AltText: It's often used for jokes at the expense of the characters.
22	* AmicableAnts: The Banana Ant is a good-natured TalkingAnimal who follows Huckleberry around, gives him advice, and provides exposition.
23	* AnimalFacialHair:
24	** Wormatt from the cover of issue 4 is a small worm with a head of hair.
25	** Wormius is a giant worm with a mustache and beard, giving him a professorly look.
26	* AnotherDimension: The introduction gives us a glimpse of a portal that opened several years ago, bringing extradimensional heroes and villains into the desert and starting the Heroic Age. Most of them eventually went back to their universe.
27	* AuthorAvatar: The [[https://huckleberry.thecomicseries.com/comics/48 cover of issue 4]] includes a small worm with a head of hair. The author notes describe this as "Wormatt, an annelid equivalent of myself, a joke character created long ago by my sister."
28	* BigBallOfViolence:
29	** When [[https://huckleberry.thecomicseries.com/comics/22 Huckleberry fights Mechaworm]], it creates a cloud of dust with impact stars and fists flying out.
30	** Wormius sees [[https://huckleberry.thecomicseries.com/comics/62/ Huckleberry fighting a gnaworm]] that chewed on his head leaves. Huck's movements are throwing up a cloud of dust around him.
31	* BladeEnthusiast: Lord Razoredge introduces himself as a "collector of sharp blades", and wears an armor made of knives and other pointy things.
32	* BlahBlahBlah: A [[https://huckleberry.thecomicseries.com/comics/51/ closeup of a newspaper]] shows a paragraph consisting mostly of repeated "blah"s.
33	* BlindedByTheLight: In battle, Morning Star uses his elemental light to dazzle opponents and shorten confrontations.
34	* BulletSeed: One of Mechaworm's weapons is an apple-shaped gun which fires seeds filled with cyanide.
35	* TheCameo: Creator/StanLee briefly appears in the first issue to sell a comic to Huckleberry. It was intended as a tribute after he passed away.
36	* CatchingSomeZs: Sleeping characters often have Z's emanating from them. On one occasion, the Z's turn into SymbolSwearing during [[https://huckleberry.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/1487043 an unpleasant dream]].
37	* ClueFromEd: Mentions of previous chapters get this treatment. Characters can have custom asterisks in their speech bubble, such as Huckleberry's small berry.
38	* ColorCodedSpeech: Morning Star's bubbles and text are teal, matching his color scheme.
39	* CranialEruption: In issue 4, lumps show through Mechaworm's helmet after Huck repeatedly hit him on the head.
40	* TheDarknessGazesBack: Nihk-Nahkt the mummy is introduced this way, with red eyes shining inside an underground cavern.
41	* DemonicPossession: Nihk-Nahkt the mummy possesses the Diamondback's body by wrapping it in bandages.
42	* DishingOutDirt: Pulpland controls earth, sand, and rocks.
43	* DominoMask: Huck wears a purple one that covers almost half of his face. He also keeps spare masks around.
44	* TheFaceOfTheSun: Some pages show a sun with a face and various expressions, even [[SinisterSentientSun looking sadistic]] when scorching an evil mummy.
45	* FastestThingAlive: Superfast is said to be the "fastest superhero of all".
46	* FearsomeCrittersOfAmericanFolklore: A [[https://huckleberry.thecomicseries.com/comics/51/ newspaper]] shows an artist's depiction of a hoopsnake -- a snake spinning hula hoops around its body.
47	* FeatheredSerpent: There is at least one "serpixie" slithering in the background. It's a normal-sized snake with feathered wings, described as a "nature-aligned amphiptere".
48	* FrustratedOverheadScribble: Squiggly or jagged lines often appear above characters when they're frustrated, angry, or yelling. The scribble-in-thought-bubble variation is seen [[https://huckleberry.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/1495800 when a worm is caught in a box]].
49	* FunWithAcronyms:
50	** All the pages that explain the protagonist's powers have titles beginning with HAHA (Huckleberry's Awesome Hidden Abilities).
51	** Every page of the ''Diamondback Under the Desert'' short story is titled "DUD page 1", "DUD page 2" and so on.
52	* FuumaShuriken: In the second issue, Morning Star successfully throws a person-sized star ornament like a big shuriken.
53	* GemTissue: The Diamondback is a desert snake with [[PunBasedCreature literal diamonds on its back]].
54	* AnIcePerson: Winter Princess can create and manipulate snow, as seen in [[https://huckleberry.thecomicseries.com/adventurecal this Christmas side story]], where she uses it to make a snowman and create a snow arm to lift and throw a ball.
55	* InSeriesNickname: Huckleberry is called "Huck" for short.
56	* KidHero: Huckleberry's exact age hasn't been revealed, but he was born during the recent Heroic Age, and everyone calls him a kid. He also survived many encounters with supervillains or powerful creatures.
57	* LifeOrLimbDecision: When Professor Wormius is caught in a trap with no one around, he ends up ripping off the end of his tail (which was caught in the trap's chain) to escape. Being a Big Worm, fortunately he can regenerate.
58	* {{Malaproper}}: Huckleberry sometimes mixes up words and sayings, like saying "armordingo" instead of "armadillo", or "who in tarantula" instead of "who in tarnation".
59	* MorningRoutine: The first issue uses half a page to show Huckleberry waking up, singing [[SingingInTheShower "awful shower songs"]], and having a big breakfast. The following issue also shows him waking up... then skips ahead to the actual plot.
60	* {{Mummy}}: Nihk-Nahkt the mummy is an undead predator who possesses bodies by wrapping them in bandages. According to the author notes on DUD page 3, there are many kinds of mummies.
61	* NoPunctuationIsFunnier: In issue 4, when Huck slips on some oil and goes flying, his reaction is just "why".
62	* OneWayVisor: Mechaworm's helmet has a red visor that conceals his eyes.
63	* OurKoboldsAreDifferent: Kobolds are humanoids with greenish skin. They're said to be very capricious.
64	* PictorialLetterSubstitution:
65	** On the cover of issue 2, "At war with a worm", the "o" in the title is an apple with a hole in the middle, representing Mechaworm and his apple armor.
66	** In "Diamondback: Under the Desert", the "i" in the title is dotted with a diamond.
67	** For issue 4, "World of worms", the "o" in "World" is a picture of an Earth-like planet, the "o" in "worms" is a donut, and the rest of the letters in "worms" are worms arranged into the appropriate letter shapes.
68	** When Huckleberry and Mechaworm [[https://huckleberry.thecomicseries.com/comics/58/ meet again]] in issue 4, [[YouSquared they both say "You!"]] The letters making up the word are angry/tough-looking faces shaped like a "Y", "O", and "U".
69	* PlantHair: As a plantman, Huck got a full head of leaves. They occasionally molt like feathers.
70	* PlantPerson: Huckleberry is a plant-based humanoid. He has green skin, leaves for hair, and plant-based powers like generating citric acid and wooden shells.
71	* PrimaryColorChampion: Interestingly inverted with Huckleberry, the heroic protagonist, who wears the colors of a SecondaryColorNemesis (purple and orange costume, green hair and boots).
72	* ProtagonistTitle: The comic is named after its main character, Huckleberry.
73	* PunBasedCreature: The Diamondback is a desert snake with [[GemTissue literal diamonds growing on its back]]. Its name is a play on the real life diamondback rattlesnake.
74	* RockMonster: Huck discovers the "Rock Giant" in the first issue. It's so big that its head alone passes for a mountain.
75	* SemanticSuperpower: Huckleberry is a fruit-themed plant person. This means he possesses a variety of vegetal abilities, such as [[AcidAttack citric acid projection]], generating a [[ElementalArmor thorny protective shell]], or [[SuperSliding sliding like a banana peel]].
76	* SpeciesSurname: Olaus Wormius is a Big Worm.
77	* SpeedStripes: They sometimes fill panels when Huck uses his ElementalSpeed. In one page it's [[https://huckleberry.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/1562479 subtle and sky-colored]], in another the lines make [[https://huckleberry.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/1472041 purple and green stripes]].
78	* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: In issue 4, Huck uses his shell generation to create a club-like mass he calls the "Shell Saber".
79	* SssssnakeTalk: Snakes such as the Diamondback draw out their s's when they talk, and even in their thoughts.
80	* SuperSpeed:
81	** Huckleberry's banana-based superspeed makes him go very fast, with immunity to air friction and some control over his direction.
82	** Superfast, "the fastest superhero of all", is shown outrunning Huck.
83	* SuperSliding: Huckleberry can produce banana atoms and slide on them, giving him a slippery, [[ElementalSpeed vegetal version of super speed]].
84	* SweatDrop: When Huck shows off his "Shell Saber", Mechaworm has a sweat drop appear on his head as he points out that it looks more like a club.
85	* SymbolMotifClothing:
86	** Huckleberry wears a purple costume with many orange fruit shapes.
87	** Morning Star wears a star-patterned robe.
88	* SymbolSwearing: Turns out Huck takes it literally, and utters things like "Skull and percents!".
89	* ThatsNoMoon: In the first issue, Huckleberry climbs a mountain that turns out to be a rock giant.
90	* ThemedCursor: The website has an orange arrow cursor, like the arrows of the orange golem.
91	* VillainExitStageLeft: When Mechaworm's first fight against Huck is interrupted by the more powerful Morning Star, he immediately calls it quits.
92	-->'''Mechaworm:''' I'll be back with a better scheme, and Morning Star will fall! Until then... bye!
93	* VisualPun: In a page titled [[https://huckleberry.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/1122416 "Nightcrawler"]], a worm is seen crawling his way into town at night.
94	* WeNeedADistraction: In the 2021 Advent Calendar story, Winter Princess creates a snowman to distract the Ochre Golem so she can get past it.
95	* WormInAnApple: Mechaworm, a MadScientist worm, invokes this when he wears his apple-shaped armor. He also had an apple-shaped laboratory, and uses an apple seed gun.
96	* XRaySparks: During a fight, Mechaworm throws an electrified weapon at Morning Star, who catches it. The shock turns his body translucent and we see his alien skeleton.
97	* YouMeanXmas: The Desert Towns have a Christmas-like midwinter event where extradimensional plants inside Mock Mountain produce gifts and send them to well-behaved people.
98	* YouSquared: When Huckleberry and Mechaworm run into each other again in issue 4, they say "You!" at the same time.

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